- Codeine possesses many of the properties of opium, from which it is derived, but it is sufficiently disti nctive to entitle it to a separate description.
- Cod seems to possess in great degree the exhilarating properties some persons experience when taking opium, though it is not without strong soporific effects as well.
- Disorders of sensation, notably trouble some itching.
- Marked sensitiveness of surface.
- Itching with feeling of warmth, numbness and prickling.
- Characteristic “Itching with warmth.
- Itching and heat of face and head.
- A sensation of agreeable warmth.” Trembling of whole body.
- Chorea.
- In voluntary t witching of muscles of arms and lower limbs.
- Convulsive twitchings of muscles and limbs and especially of orbital muscles, are very marked.
- Twitch ings prevent sleep at night.
- Numbness and prickling.
- Extreme restlessness.
- Symptoms are periodic, paroxysmal, at times sudden.
- Diabetes